This new EU court ruling is part of an anti-democratic epidemic spreading around so-called ‘liberal democracies’
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/07/05/eu-approves-law/
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I thought the canary was trustworthy, but this line immediately destroyed that thought.
The EU is desperate — like the UK — to shore up its defence of and support for nazi-riddled Ukraine
Leftist outlets shooting themselves in the foot once again.
Just ask The Rabble.
In Canada, The Canadian Network on Cuba and local chapters of Cuban solidarity groups are collecting donations, including solar powered generators for hospitals and schools. The federal government recently announced that it would be sending $8 million in humanitarian aid as well. There is hope for more from the federal government since that amount is considered by many to be more like a trial balloon. And it comes the day after billions were pledged to prolong the war in the Ukraine.
https://rabble.ca/columnists/cuba-has-persevered-despite-extreme-adversity/
I’m supportive of The Canary’s reporting on Israel’s genocide, but they’re throwing their credibility away by categorizing Russian propaganda as credible reporting.
I think you are misreading what they say. They are not saying RT reporting is credible, they are saying that EU’s court ruling makes objective truth not a valid defense from prosecution.
The ultra-Orwellian move makes no distinction whether what the video says is true. It makes no exemption for journalists.
If <insert your trusted reporter> reposts the video to criticise it for all the lies they are commiting a criminal offense under this ruling.
In general, your posts are pretty unbiased, but this one is crazy biased. The writer literally calls Ukraine “nazi-riddled”. It’s like the main Russian propaganda talking point.
On top of that, banning a country’s propaganda arm isn’t a wild restriction of objective truth. RT can post “water is wet” it gets shared, then they change it to “Ukraine is 100% nazis”. It’s completely pointless to share anything RT says or does and only serves to further Russia’s propaganda.
The writer literally calls Ukraine “nazi-riddled”. It’s like the main Russian propaganda talking point.
Does it matter to you whether it’s true or not? Obviously it’s Russian propaganda, but that doesn’t make automatically untrue.
Read this on the topic: Ukraine’s military has a real Nazi problem. It’s an actually well written article by a Ukrainian academic with PHD in history.
The larger issue is that you think you’re not reading propaganda yourself. That there is a free press that reports objectively. Even if there was, it wouldn’t be presented equally to you because of algorithms. Obviously you can’t trust what the enemy writes, but it’s equally foolish to trust what your own captured news media are telling you. It’s approaching a fever pitch here. CRIMINAL PROSECUTION for sharing a video.
This isn’t about hate speech, this is about a difference of opinion on a geopolitical conflict, a proxy war. Imagine you weren’t allowed to share videos because they are all “main Palestinian talking points”.
I’m honestly fucking shocked. I didn’t imagine we’d get here this fast.
Does it matter to you whether it’s true or not? Obviously it’s Russian propaganda, but that doesn’t make automatically untrue.
using “these people exist in this country” as justification for bombing and killing their citizens is exactly what Israel is doing with Palestine right now (hamas is there!!! blow everything up and take their land). This is the exact same thing. It doesn’t matter how true it is, there is zero reason to justify attacking another country in the modern day and age. Zero. I don’t care if the entire country is 100% nazis. Someone existing in another country does not justify any sort of attack.
So yeah, having that be in a news article used as justification just proves that the propaganda is working. Even on that Ukrainian PhD. It’s irrelevant how many nazis are there. Let Ukraine deal with that.
So in other words, you don’t care if something is true or false, if it’s “politically incorrect” it needs to be suppressed and it’s morally wrong to point it out. MAGAts, climate change deniers or anti-vaxxer do the same.
Wow, you really showed that straw man who’s boss!
ML users and strawmen, a match made in heaven.
There is no such thing as unbiased. We are all biased by definition since we have our experiences and thoughts that shape us.
RT is already banned in the whole Europe. This ruling is not about banning RT, it’s about negating truth as a valid defense against prosecution. I couldn’t care less about RT specifically. But replace RT with any other entity and then ask yourself if your position would be the same? It never ends with one entity. Once they have the power to use it, they will use it again.
It’s another area where EU is erasing fundamental rights, just like they are trying to do with ID verification, chat control and the recent wave of expanded copyright enforcement where they are literally giving private entities access to ban anything they want.
You should doubt their reporting on every topic after this.
RT salty that their propaganda isn’t welcome, unveils the Canary as the next russian propaganda outlet that needs to be banned.
In case anyone actually cares: The (original first instance) ruling is from a small-ish local court in Germany, and the people in question re-posted the RT video on their website which is a comercial enterprise. this is the reason they got hit with the ruling, because the law is targeting comercial entities that carry or reproduce RT misinformation. If they had posted it to twitter, facebook or even their private non-comercial website/blog/whatever, there would have been no problem (besides marking themselves as guillable dum-dums. (if posted to twitter/facebook/insta, it would have been the resposibility of them to remove/block the video/content)
source: i read the court document, like anyone can who can click a link on the original (mis-representative) twitter post.
fun fact: i posted this as a reply to the lemmy ml post of this yesterday, and my comment was deleted and i was banned by mods. I guess they don’t like people who tell the truth over there.
The far-left still defending the now far-right Moscow never ceases being funny. The Soviet Union ceased to exist 35 years ago, but old habits die hard, I suppose.
It’s the same with them and China, which is similarly far-right.
Their reasoning being: because Russia is currently allies with communist states, by invading Ukraine they’re helping communism “fight the imperialist west”.
Like all good propaganda, there’s a kernel of truth in there, buried real deep in the bullshit. However, they’re doing nothing useful by stanning for Russia, especially given Russia are now very much on the back foot.
